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The space has been used by skateboarders since 1976

The latest legal battle to save the "skatepark" on London's Southbank has been deferred.

Campaigners have asked the High Court to grant the Undercroft under the South Bank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall village green status.

Long Live Southbank wants the area protected so it cannot be moved as part of the centre's redevelopment.

Mrs Justice Lang has delayed proceedings to ask the government to explain village greens legislation.

The campaigners are appealing against Lambeth Council's decision to refuse granting the status to the park because it argued it could not be retrospectively awarded once an area had been marked for redevelopment.

But Long Live Southbank has questioned this, saying the area along the South Bank in general was marked for development, rather than specifically the Undercroft itself.